Interdependence Without Oppression

April 22 is both Earth Day and the beginning of Passover. Every liberation movement in Western culture has taken inspiration from the story of the Israelites escaping slavery in Egypt – even if they did then spend forty years wandering in the wilderness. Rev. John offers his sermon as a prayer for two refugee camps – the powerful one now called Israel, and the Palestinian people, especially those in Gaza. Member Rebecca Avery will offer recollections of observing Passover as a child, and Prof. Richard G. Johnson will recall growing up African American in a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx.